fueling the fire is u.n. mediators struggle to get warring sides in syria to negotiate london values to keep cash flowing to the rebels in their fight against damascus. the recent shooting rampage carried out by a french gunman interludes draws presidential candidates into a fierce pre-election rhetoric over extremism and immigration. spain's prime minister set to announce a new wave of austerity cuts the day after a nationwide strike leads to violence between protesters and police.

new in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r t our top story despite officially supporting a u.n. appeal for a ceasefire by all sides in syria the u.s. and allies are still backing the opposition unconditionally britain's promise to funnel additional funds of the rebels with hundreds of thousands of dollars amid reports they're already getting weapons from abroad or she's laura smith reports from london. the u.s. we understand is expected to make a similar pledge this weekend at a seventy nations summit whose expressed goal is to unite this opposition in syria which is hugely fragmented as we know and consists of at least four main factions and the foreign secretary william hague says that he hopes this will help the opposition to unite as a as a credible force to fight against us for the u.k. this represents a doubling of aid to the country they've already given seven hundred fifty thousand

dollars which was being used in areas like training for media skills and also to help the opposition to gather information on human rights abuses and it's not clear how useful that money's actually been we've been receiving a lot of conflicting information on casualties from the opposition including from here in london the syrian observatory for human rights which has been hugely inflating the number of casualties lots of conflicting figures that but now this money is planning to widen the scope of the help it's destined to woods buying equipment including we understand. secure phones to help the opposition to communicate secretly and effectively and there are several main points really here firstly how secure is this money how does the british government know that it's not going to buy weapons is going to be channeled into these more sort of peaceful measures and the answer is possibly they don't secondly who is this opposition it

doesn't seem that we're any further forward in determining exactly who makes up this factional opposition in syria we do know that a part of it is the free syrian army which is a hugely dangerous group known to have killed a number of people and also believes to include a number of possible islamic extremists thirdly how useful is it in diplomatic terms to support one with a view to obtaining a different. solution we know that present ourselves is very displeased by these gifts of money he's already said that countries must stop providing both money and weapons to the opposition they have to stop immediately if kofi annan six point plan for peace in syria is going to work that suggests that if countries carry on giving money he may just pull out of the talks altogether we're seeing austerity cuts we're seeing strikes and demonstrations literally almost every week here in this country and it's against that backdrop that the british government is sending

more and more money to syria to cover more and more things and who knows where this intervention on this scale is going to end the only way to help the syrian people is to promote negotiation instead of just supporting one side in the conflict most of you are in for wars dot com i was an editor patrick hemmings. it's unbelievable how it's got to this point where it seems ok to fund the opposition whatever form it is and let's not kid ourselves the u.s. and the u.k. have been backing guerrilla forces in syria for the last year ok and we can erase that from the history books that has been happening that's been admitted by the u.s. state department has been admitted by the u.k. foreign office and all the sudden they're back pedaling now saying that it's all you know nice arab spring nonmilitary intervention and we're going to help the opposition it doesn't work if they want to help syria they need to engage the syrian government in diplomatic talks on neutral ground it's quite quite clear

president assad is not going to. you know accept the kofi annan peace plan as the western countries are still giving aid to the opposition and you know is already pretty caught through proxy smuggling on over the border in jordan and also this arms going over the border in lebanon where these coming from ok we know these are coming from these are coming from the u.s. the u.k. their allies in the region they're doing party. coming up later on cross talk with peter lavelle opinions clash over why washington has taken such an uncompromising stance toward the syrian government. the united states is acting out of humanitarian desire to see this in this does not mean that we will engage in direct military intervention as i suggested despite the fact that senator mccain and others have suggested we do so and so i think it's perfectly clear that we have an interest in seeing assad ousted we also have an interest and seems to belittle

occur after assad is removed how that stability would occur remains to be seen will it be a democratic will it be democratic impulses i doubt it the muslim brotherhood is well organized to take control of the country ok maybe. for me briefly as the leader forty years ago when i need what have you to speak of this is number one what if that rule of muslim brotherhood does come to power in syria democratically then we have to accept the outcome right herbert exactly and this is really the matter is what are you saying if you don't like the current government in syria but the potential future government in syria and other was this isn't about them not was a is knows about what the syrian people themselves want is about the americans one is not acceptable. and stay with us here on our key still to come this hour fuel frenzy drivers in the u.k. rushing to the promises they're warned of a possible fuel tanker strike plus. it's really creepy to have someone

holding up the machine to your face that you have no idea not only to help the fact that it but what they're actually use it with their larger purposes you think it is or how soon might your dishwasher start spying of you retract big brother's plans for the privacy of americans. but first french police have detained nineteen suspected islamic extremists in a crackdown against a radical religious. radicalism this follows a spate of killings carried out by mohamed merah who was buried yesterday in the city of toulouse following days of debate on what to do with his remains but as well as being a figure of public hatred meraz fast becoming a game changer in the country's upcoming presidential vote or his tests are so your reports from paris. a mama never was killed by police after thirty two hours seizure and to lose his life may have ended that day but his story has given

france's presidential hopefuls an excuse for electioneering with ever more radical rhetoric. that's given rise to a huge political debate and what's made it to the foreground of the discourse is marriage as background. from anyone who regularly consults internet sites which promote terror or hatred or violence would be sentenced to prison any person going abroad for the purposes of indoctrination in terrorist ideology will be criminally punished that's in addition to psychos east policy of stripping of foreign born criminals of their citizenship for their tightening border control saying there are too many foreigners in france and promising to bar radical muslim preachers from entering the country to participate in an islamic conference next month will clearly advocating the political change in extremist view is not occurring we have freedom of speech in france and they don't see. the restricted.

while the french citizens many of these family came to france a very long time ago so. obviously this kind of terrorism. from inside friends of society it's not just something that is imported from the middle east. and you cannot. take away french nationality from a french nationals this is not allowed under the french constitution and then there's money in the pen a far right national front party candidate having long pushed a more radical anti immigration line call for the revival of the death penalty for child killers and the deportation of any foreigner who goes of a suspicious trip to places like afghanistan how many mohammed merah are there in the blue. and planes that's arrive in france full of immigrants how did metro is perhaps only the tip of the iceberg it's time to breed you on this from the mentalist political religious groups who are killing our children and threats of

islamic fundamentalism has been underestimated it's going to be. i think all of it's been announced after these trance you can vent some proposals put forward soley for the election it goes to the one who proposes the most radical solutions which would aim supposedly at solving the problem but the problem is much deeper with our now the growing number of immigrants in france about six million of whom are muslims it's being labeled as a problem by some prominent figures politicians are throwing around what they call solutions but the question is whether any of these policy ideas on immigration or security are realistic that are addressing an actual problem or simply the consequences of something more fundamental the core of the problem is that the third be difficult to create because what is the goal the goal to pull in there doesn't seem to be much consensus on that either just or cilia r t paris there's panic at the pumps in the u.k. where threaten the strike by fuel delivery drivers is already seems stations are

running out there's even fears the army may be maybe deployed to keep the country moving this at a time of while it emptying oil prices that have governments of london paris and washington are considering flooding the market with their own reserves france says there's a good chance the u.s. and europe will agree to release oil stocks into the markets to drive down crude costs last year as the war in libya tightened supplies countries bought into the paris based international energy agency really sixty million barrels of crude oil to the market to call down prices now new sanctions over iran have also been influencing cost from the national iranian american council says the west can only blame itself for the spike in prices. the real problem here is that the u.s. and the e.u. have passed these unprecedented sanctions without a real strategy or understanding of comes next we're sort of making this up as we go along and we're finding that the sanctions that we put in place to try to

restrict iran from profiting off of oil sales is really actually backfiring on us and that iran has tremendous leverage against us if we're going to take this confrontation to one to energy so i'm skeptical of the ability of the united states and france and others to actually mitigate this president obama has even said a number of economists have said that the fear of a war with iran has actually added about twenty dollars to the price of a barrel of oil so this concern that israel may strike iran or that the united states may end up in a war with iran is one of the driving factors of why it's so expensive and simply addressing the supply issue is not going to mitigate that. for more news videos and analysis you can always click on over to our t. dot com here's a taste of what's online right now wall street versus main street two thirds of americans are not happy with the u.s. economy as they continue paying for the mistakes of financial. defeated in

cyberspace the f.b.i. says it's fighting a losing battle as it continues being a target for activists cried out more at our t.v. . police in spain of clash with demonstrators during a general strike against labor reforms and a further economic belt tightening this is prime minister mariano rajoy is set to announce new austerity measures for the country aimed at saving tens of billions of euros making it easier for employers to fire workers archy's jacob griese has been following the protests in madrid. raising this has been causing so much for anger around the whole country is owing to the high unemployment crisis a startling high in fact the most in any developed country has twenty three percent

of the population but does the lawsuit change the way i thought we did new. not long leave everybody in this state the less money you know we have the meeting we do what can you keep it's also a lot of young people out and about the reason behind us a lot of those on him loyce oh but oh oh my uncle those under twenty five about fifty percent sure are still unemployed so it's a cools it really concerns them but has the pressure mounting from the e.u. from the eurozone leaders to implement small austerity cuts the deficit that's meant the italian prime minister speaking out recently saying this is a condition that could include all the eurozone members as well first let the spanish prime minister cannot quite tough when it comes to the future budget to be decided on friday he said it will be very very austere that something doesn't really have an appetite in this round even though they recognize there's

a need for cuts the place i don't think it should be on their watch i don't think the impact should be felt by them. jacob green is reporting for us from madrid. spain is a task easier said than done. because it's forty percent the size of germany you cannot save a country that size you cannot bail him out like you would be allowed greece or ireland or portugal spain is a big country is one trillion euros g.d.p. per year. that's simply too big for any country or any group of countries in the european in the years on to bail out france and germany cannot bailout spain so the only solution and i think that this is inevitable is for spain to exit the euro zone go back to the devalue and start rebuilding its economy and that i think will likely happen in the next government after hoyt who who i think unfortunately is going to fail and the government after that will be left wing government and they

will probably exit the eurozone and go back to the process and devalue and do what has to be done because this government unfortunately they have the best of intentions and i have no doubt that they are very capable and competent but they just don't have what it takes to do what's necessary which is exit the euro turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe north korea has started plans for a rocket launch scheduled for april according to satellite images taken by a private u.s. firm washington says the exercise is actually a long range missile test and is in breach of u.n. resolutions with japan saying it was ready to shoot down a north korean rocket if necessary yangon says it's intended to send a satellite into space for scientific purposes meanwhile north korea fired two short range missiles off as west coast thursday. west african nations have issued an ultimatum to the leaders of a military coup in mali to relinquish power within seventy two hours or face sanctions proposed measures would include shutting off the land borders with the country and freezing the state's assets last week's who was led by soldiers on

a happy with president alba due to money tories policies self declared leaders have since under the new constitution and announced elections which went to participants would be barred from standing. a suspected u.s. drone launched two missiles at a house in northwest pakistan killing three alleged militants the attack happened early friday in the town of miran shah in an area known as a sanctuary for taliban and al qaeda insurgents foreigners believed to be among the group of those hit the strike comes at a time when pakistan is demanding an end to u.s. drone attacks in the country. israel's military has closed off the west bank as palestinians and arabs prepare to mark a land day yanyuwa march commemorates the death of six hours killed by israeli police during protests over government confiscation of land in northern israel thousands of troops have been deployed in anticipation of violence the palestinian authority has also urged supporters to hold demonstrations outside israeli embassies in other countries. big brother could be slowly creeping into american

allies but the cia chief even joking about spying on people from their dishwashers but according to recent polls people need us aren't seeing the lighter side fear of big government has soared amid expanding unchecked security measures or he's mourning important i has more from new york. ten years ago biometrics robotic spies and state surveillance were the makings of a side by flick starring tom cruise from until around today many scenes from the hollywood blockbuster minority report how about arguably be calm and know can we ality with life ominously imitating art your walking down the street of the camera takes a picture of you is able to compare it through facial mapping is able to compare it to your driver's license photo or some other photo. maybe a surveillance photo and say all right marina was on the corner of forty circa.

three o'clock last saturday in addition to facial recognition in new york city's police department is just one of many law enforcement agencies that also require citizens to undergo an iris scan before being released from police custody. in the past six months iris scans have been taken from hundreds of occupy wall street activists police under arrest like christina gonzales they really don't tell you why they just say it's another form of identification and it's really creepy to have someone holding up the machine to your phrase that you have no idea that only the health of what there are clearly use it with their larger purposes of using it is for iris scans are like a high tech fingerprint but much faster officials can quickly identify anyone who's unique scan is on the database the technology is becoming increasingly useful as

a tracking tool in the u.s. in the virtual world of tweets. facebook posts and search engines every internet user is defined by a data footprint if you think anonymous comments and blogs are protected think again through the use of what's called forensic linguistics. u.s. investigators can now uncover whose fingers are behind every single keystroke if i have a good a large enough sample of your writing and your postal card control you can compare it i can put it into a database and database. using that information find me every other post you ever get the digital data trail of every american will soon be connected to a massive building in utah a two billion dollar data center is reportedly being constructed for the u.s. national security agency the complex will allegedly be able to collect analyze and

store all forms of personal communication including online purchases cell calls google searches and yes private messages but they're actually looking at de encrypting all of the data that comes out so for example when you use g. mail your all your e-mails are encrypted by default google has given you this service and has allowed you to say my communications are protected now the n.s.a. center is designed around building systems that will d.n. correct that data and remove any protection that you can put onto it earlier this month cia director david petraeus painted a picture of america's dystopian free fall when describing the emergence of the internet of things the furries refers to an increasing amount of personal information washington will eventually be able to obtain once all home aleck tronics are wired to a network of u.s. intelligence officials estimate that by twenty twenty two one hundred billion

ordinary devices such as refrigerators and dishwashers could be wired up to the internet just the way p.c.'s and cell phones are now that bottomless pit of data could allow big brother to monitor virtually anything it wants even the cia director says. very idea that secrecy will change forever. parky new york. get out of the business desk and marina kosar it was standing by so europe and russia have been trading now for a little more than our already investors feeling on this friday how much the investor seems. also is positive as far as that's concerned most of the countries in europe are gaining as well as are also goes about russia in the second and asia first let's start with europe you can see the banks there are leading the gains and b.m.p. part is having over one percent also resource forms are on their eyes and that's on

the back of rising commodity prices because look at the thinkers the footsie is up almost one third of a precise while the guy x. is up three quarters of a percent high have and now bucking the trend is sort of really calm as a surprise both talking about europe the french president has announced that the country's budget deficit equal to five point two percent of g.d.p. in two thousand and eleven and that was lower than the government's initial target the plan is to cut the deficit to four and a half percent of g.d.p. ensue thousand and twelve. now moving on let's take a look at what's happening with the russian markets we can see there that they are in the black with the arts yes in fact out in over one and a half percent of my sex is just slightly behind that also it's important to mention that it's been quite a successful quarter for the russian border since the r.t.s. is out it's seventy percent since the beginning of the year and for them my sex trafficker is seven percent and that was because of high oil prices as well as gains on wall street but analysts say we could see that figure i see it's when some

percent by the end of the year let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my sax here we go this hour we have the correct figures you can see that energy stocks are among the main gainers and that's because of higher crude prices gas from is that an overt supersize financials on the rise as well with needs to be adding over one and a half percent and then we have m.k. which is gaining almost two percent said the company has just gone on the prove all to acquire australian are no explorer flinders. moving on to asia it's about so close right now it's still a sea of red with both the nikkei and the hi i'm sorry i'm starting one third of a percent and investors are reacting to a number of news first of all we have in japan every porch in that industrial output has the client unexpectedly in february and that was due to low overseas the round for both cars as well as electronic goods in hong kong a different set of the news that basically we saw a real estate the shares of poland and that's after news of the arrest of soup

billionaire brothers who are in fact property tycoons and the city all right moving on so oil prices are going up and last fall and the biggest decline in the week and investors there are looking out for following data first of all we have u.s. soft policy which are on the rise and second of all western countries are considering releasing their strategic oil reserves to prices lower now when it comes to the currencies the euro is slightly lower against the dollar and there that's ahead of the e.u. finance minute. there's a meeting where they're expected to discuss the euro zone's emergency intervention plan and what it's extravagant for there now when it comes to the ruble we see that it's slightly lower again it's higher against the u.s. dollar lower against the euro now in other news and new report claims mobile phone companies are losing a staggering fifty eight billion dollars a year worldwide that's due to billionaires and for all of it africa and the middle east that accounts for fifteen percent of revenue in europe that number is one

percent in the north america it's almost three percent the industry has made nine hundred twenty billion dollars in two thousand and eleven. city has slowed seventy percent in the first quarter of two thousand and twelve now that's compared to the same period last year a new report by accounts and from ernst and young says deals amounts it's roughly fourteen billion dollars so far and that's the lowest level in two years and that's the results on certain see in the euro zone and a smaller number of larger less than some state owned firms emerging markets are still the i.p.o. leaders with china topping the list and the number of deals and russia is out of the league for the last summer a host of initial public offerings was last summer. that's how business looks to sour i have to say about positive a common tripped me up in the beginning because i'm just so used to saying that it's a new c.e.o. with a market that's always been since monday. very much for that update marina

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